Lane Medical Library
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Lane Medical Library is the library of the Stanford University School of Medicine at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California. Its mission is to "accelerate scientific discovery, clinical care, medical education and humanities through teaching, collaboration, and delivery of biomedical and historical resources".{{cite web|url=https://lane.stanford.edu/about/about.html|title=About Lane Library|access-date=24 March 2022|publisher=Stanford School of Medicine}} It is located on campus adjacent to Stanford Hospital and Clinics. In addition to books, journals and documents for medical research and the teaching and practice of medicine, Lane Library houses a significant collection of material relating to the history of medicine.{{cite web|url=http://archiveswiki.historians.org/index.php/Stanford_Medical_History_Center|title=Stanford Medical History Center|work=ArchivesWiki|publisher=American Historical Association|accessdate=26 August 2012}} The library also provides specialized search capabilities,{{cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/library-1122.html|title=New search tools at Lane Library website for questions from both researchers, clinicians|last=Spector|first=Rosanne|date=November 22, 2010|publisher=Stanford School of Medicine|accessdate=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114051525/http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/library-1122.html|archive-date=14 January 2011|url-status=dead}} classes and tutorials, writing and grant support, and group and individual study spaces.
History
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Levi Cooper Lane was a physician and surgeon in San Francisco in the 1800s. He served on the faculty of the Medical Department of the College of the Pacific, which was the first medical school on the Pacific Coast, founded in 1858 by Lane's uncle Elias Samuel Cooper. After Cooper's death in 1862 the medical school stopped operating. In 1870 Lane revived it, became president, and renamed it Medical College of the Pacific. In 1882 he changed the name to Cooper Medical College, named for his uncle, its founder. He built with his own funds a new brick medical school building at the corner of Sacramento and Webster streets, which served continuously as a medical school from 1882 until 1959.{{cite web|url=http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/html/chap1/chap1-sect3.html |title=The Advent of Cooper Medical College (1870-1912) |work=eLane |publisher=Lane Library |accessdate=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011004454/http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/html/chap1/chap1-sect3.html |archivedate=11 October 2012 }} He also built an adjacent hospital and nursing school, and made provision in his will for the construction of a library across the street from the college.{{cite book|last1=Wilbur|first1=Ray Lyman|last2=Carroll|first2=Paul|title=The Memoirs of Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1875-1949|year=1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1ejAAAAIAAJ&q=%22lane+medical+library%22&pg=PA80|pages=79–80|isbn=9780804700306}}
Lane died on February 9, 1902, and his widow died in August 1902; in his widow's will, one third of Lane's estate was given to Cooper Medical College to establish a medical library.{{cite web|url=http://www.cpmc.org/professionals/hslibrary/collections/archives/lane.html |title=Levi Cooper Lane, M.D. 1828-1902 |work=Health Sciences Library |publisher=California Pacific Medical Center |accessdate=2012-08-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907063027/http://www.cpmc.org/professionals/hslibrary/collections/archives/lane.html |archivedate=2011-09-07 }} In August 1906, the directors of Cooper Medical College passed a resolution establishing the Lane Medical Library. In 1908, Stanford acquired Cooper Medical College as the nucleus for the Stanford Medical Department, now the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1910 Stanford also acquired the assets of the Levi C. Lane Medical Library Trust, consisting of 30,000 volumes as well as a building site and funds for the building of a library.{{cite book|last=Stanford University|title=New Building of the Stanford University Library and a History of the Library 1891-1919|url=https://archive.org/details/newbuildingstan00librgoog|quote=stanford library.|year=1919|publisher=Stanford University}} Lane Library was dedicated November 3, 1912.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKYaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22lane+medical+library%22|title=Dedication of the Lane Medical Library|work=Leland Stanford Jr. University|accessdate=25 August 2012|last1=Library|first1=Lane Medical|year=1912}} It was an integral part of the Stanford library system despite being located in San Francisco. It was the largest medical library west of Chicago.{{cite book|last=Stam|first=David H. |title=International Dictionary of Library Histories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pf8rV7tUCN8C&q=%22lane+medical+library%22&pg=PA707|volume=2|year=2001|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|location=Chicago|pages=707–708|isbn=9781579582449 }} The building still stands; it now houses the California Pacific Medical Center Health Sciences Library.[http://www.cpmc.org/professionals/hslibrary/ California Pacific Medical Center Health Sciences Library]Harris, Henry. California's Medical Story. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. Page 239. The medical school and Lane Library were moved to the main Stanford campus in 1959.
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External links
- [http://lane.stanford.edu/index.html Official website]
- [http://library.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Libraries]
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Category:Library buildings completed in 1912
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Category:Libraries in Santa Clara County, California
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